What was your first phone?

[duwen]

Nokia 5110

Great phone - built like a tank! If all you need to do is calls and sms, this baby is still a viable option 20yrs later!

 

[MockyLock]

Mine was a Sony Ericsson T20

 

[Bowsette]

Puh some Nokia phone way back than lol.

 

[wiewiec]

Mine was old Alcatel One Touch sth... ages ago

 

[Deleted User]

Those were the days! (Speaking in elderly voice)

 

[emigre]

I got it over 12 years ago. It was an alright phone in them days.

 

[suprevilguy]

Old Samsung flip phone. Had it until it literally snapped in two.

 

[Song of storms]

Nokia 5110

Great phone - built like a tank! If all you need to do is calls and sms, this baby is still a viable option 20yrs later!

No it's not, don't be ridiculous.

Aside from the shit battery and antenna, the build quality isn't that great either.

 

[Deleted User]

First ever phone was a Nokia 3310.
First ever SmartPhone was a Nokia N-Gage QD.

 

[duwen]

No it's not, don't be ridiculous.

Aside from the shit battery and antenna, the build quality isn't that great either.

...In your opinion.
...but here's some facts -

• you can throw these down a flight of concrete steps and it not even crack... good luck doing that with any current phone and not have at least a cracked screen.
• all current smart phones have worse battery life than every pre-smart phone (why I went back to using my old Nokia E6 - it only needs charging twice a month, and it's on 24/7)
• it won't slow down to the point that it's pretty much useless through notifications and OS bloat, requiring an eventual upgrade to a newer handset

I stand by my statement - if all you need is a device to make and receive phone calls and send and receive text messages, old devices like the Nokia are a better option than any current smart phone.

 

[grossaffe]

something like this:

 

[Laghum]

First thing I got was a Bosch GSM-com 608 in blue, if I can trust my memories. I hated it, because the display was not fully made up of pixels, but had only "rows" with pixels. Therefor snake and other games could not be played on it

 

[SceneButNotHeard]

this sexy beast;the Nokia E5-00

I loved thatphone- honestly would still be using it if the charger wasn't making noises resembling a time bomb (also if Symbian S60 was still supported but I'm determined to bring it back)
Phones with physical keyboards need to come back, I miss texting with gloves on!!

 

[xpoverzion]

My first "smart" phone was a Palm Trio 650. It had internet, emailing, keyboard, etc.. Used to day trade stocks with that phone back in 2005.

 

[Deleted User]

Samsung Galaxy Ace 2x



thing was so slow that the FPS counter in retroarch broke and started reading 8000fps

 

[raxadian]

My first cell phone was a Nokia 2170. I remember playing snake a lot on it. It also had a football/soccer game and some falling blocks game.

I didn't use ir much and had to turn it off during school hours.

The weight was 235 g, the size 140 x 55 x 33 mm. The phone book (Contacts) stored up to 99 names and numbers .

It had 10 ring tunes by default and had only 3 colors.

Of course, it included Snake and two other games.

That one together with my dads cell phone that was the same model, was stolen ages ago.

 

[mariopepper]

My first phone was Nokia, but one guy from my school stole it in my first day.

 

[BORTZ]

Motorola v325i. For its time, it wasn't super advanced but did come with things that were kinda big features for 2006. Camera and an outward screen to show if you missed calls/ texts/ or voicemail. I really liked it. When it rang, that white strip between the black rubber and silver would light up neon blue. It looked awesome. No one else i knew had this one.

 

[Brizas99]

Nokia 3310 xD

 

[Ryccardo]

First one I've used for a memorable amount of time was my grandfather's Microtac 8200 (which, like most phones at the time, could only receive SMS: my mom had the newer 8700 which could also send them, so she texted me - he didn't know how to read them anyway - and I would go to the phone booth to reply )

My first own one was some Samsung with a color notification LED made around 2003, which I remember almost nothing about due to it holding the questionable award of being the only tech product stolen from me until 2016

Next was a Nokia 3220:
I even bought a serial cable for it, but I don't think I ever installed a Java game on that one - because I found out I could get more entertainment out of the maybe 4 MB storage if I filled it with Mario MIDIs!!
I still have it somewhere, with no cable/charger/battery, but fully knowing it has 2 bootleg song recordings, one of which seems to be impossible to find in any form...
It's also the tech product with an apparently unlimited calendar, on which I started writing down almost every place I've been and at which time (I have since lost that data, but my current calendar which starts somewhere in 2011 is a few megabytes in ICS format!)